On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To my pleasure, I was able to get two different virtual machines running > pretty quickly. I installed Fedora 10 x86_64 on my new laptop with the > Virtualization package group and as little else as possible. Then I > updated the system (so now I'm using kvm-74-6-fc10.x86_64), started the > graphical Virtual Machine Manager, and built a guest for Windows XP > Professional and a second guest for Fedora 10 x86_64. > > I want the Fedora 10 guest to fetch an IP address of 192.168.1.115 from > the dhcp server running on my network. Virtual Machine Manager seems to > be creating it's very own dhcp server and assigning network addresses of > 192.168.122.2 and higher. So I can't ping the guest I just created from > a host on the 192.168.1.0 network. > > The networking behavior VMWare gives me results in my virtual machines > getting their addresses from the dhcp server on the 192.168.1.0 network, > so the host IP I'm expecting for a machine is the one that is assigned > and used. > > How do I change the networking in Virtual Machine Manager to simply pass > all the dhcp calls to my network? Or is there a good reason to let the > Manager do its own 192.168.122.x network? > I don't know specifically about Virtual Machine Manager and don't have it handy, but for the basic concepts of KVM networking and also the libvirt style and nomenclature see the following links: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Networking The Virtual Machine Manager page may have some information that could help you: http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/screenshots/networking.html Hope that helps. Cheers, Todd -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net http://runningxen.com -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
